Saturday, April 10, 2010

Polish chief Nurowski dies in plane crash (AP)

WARSAW, Poland (AP)—Polish Olympic Committee conduct Piotr Nurowski has died inthe craft pile-up that killed President Lech Kaczynski. Nurowski was 64.

Poland’s Olympic Committee says Nurowski was drifting to a commemorative service inthe timberland of Katyn, nearby Smolensk, to symbol a 70th anniversary of a killingof thousands of Polish officers as well as intellectuals by a Soviet secret securityduring World War II.

There were no survivors when a craft crashed Saturday just off Smolenskairport.

Nurowski was to lay a wreath to respect Poland’s sports people killed inKatyn.

A former comrade party part of as well as embassy official in Moscow from 1981-84,Nurowski was allocated to conduct a Olympic cabinet in 2005.


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